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Fire Weather Watch 21, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 17, 20066 counties in Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this fire weather watch at Apr 17, 2006, 3:53 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 18, 2006, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 17, 2006, 3:53 PM CDT (20:53 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 18, 2006, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 18, 2006, 4:23 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX

Counties Bailey County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 402 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2006-04-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2006-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.